In 1968 Archigram were invited to make an installation at the Milan Triennale. The theme that year was the ‘greater number problem’, which Archigram, being much more optimistic than most, took as an advantage. We invented ‘Popular Paks’, packages of architecture which you could buy off the shelf and add to the existing environment to fine-tune it. A collage that I made for a project called Tuned Suburbs shows a fork-lift truck loaded with a Popular Pak driving into an invented suburb that is part Georgian, part Edwardian, part modern developer housing. The Popular Pak brought in elements to improve the environment – accretions of modern technology that showed how existing places could be tuned up, lifted to another dimension.
Ron Herron